Mick in Dubbo
New member
G'Day all.
I got the opportunity to do a beach hunt down at the beautiful little town of Kiama, about 140kms south of Sydney, at Easter.
As there is a caravan park located only metres away from the south end of the beach, I figured that it would be fairly slim pickings, and I was correct.
It was still fun to do and managed to learn a little bit about the mind set of many detector operators. Firstly, I started at low tide, with the coil in the water (ankle deep) to see if I could find some jewellery, but no luck. I did note though, this was the first time that I have had falsing issues with the Ace.It would only stop falsing once I had dropped to 1 bar of sensitivity. In the end I raised it to 4 bars and put up with the regular low tones. Any higher than this and falsing was just chronic. As far as the mind set of detector operators goes: although I only found three or four coins on the beach itself, I went up to another very obvious spot, playground equipment and found about $7 in five minutes. This equipment was in a very popular picnic area of about 3 acres (all lawn) immediately behind the beach. The mind boggles at how little this spot had been detected given that there is a very inviting beach in front of it!
Did I detect this spot. Nope. Had my eye on a better spot. There is a reserve elsewhere in the town that hosts 2 separate markets on it, that I was aware of. These are my favourite spots. I had managed to obtain 3 photos of the markets that that are held here, before I came down to Kiama. However, they weren't very good and only gave me a partial picture on where the stall holders set up shop. Given that I have in the past, operated stalls of my own and detected these sort of spots before, I was confident of predicting the way the site was set up.
After hunting this site for a couple of hours (interrupted by storms) I found that I had under prepared. I only brought the large coil down, and should have packed the other 2, as the ground had a very high concentration of junk! (hence the heading). I had decided to hunt next to the pathways, as this is how most stall holders operate.
My finds totaled 2 $2 coins and a 20 cent piece. Pretty ordinary for such a site.
When we left town on the Monday, I got to go back to this site to check out the lay out of the market, as one was being held that day. I was disgusted
to find that they had set up with their back to the paths, or set up across them in vague rows on open lawn!
The end result is that I had only grazed the side of this site.
Oh well. There is aways next year.
Total finds for the week end, $15.
Mick Evans.
I got the opportunity to do a beach hunt down at the beautiful little town of Kiama, about 140kms south of Sydney, at Easter.
As there is a caravan park located only metres away from the south end of the beach, I figured that it would be fairly slim pickings, and I was correct.
It was still fun to do and managed to learn a little bit about the mind set of many detector operators. Firstly, I started at low tide, with the coil in the water (ankle deep) to see if I could find some jewellery, but no luck. I did note though, this was the first time that I have had falsing issues with the Ace.It would only stop falsing once I had dropped to 1 bar of sensitivity. In the end I raised it to 4 bars and put up with the regular low tones. Any higher than this and falsing was just chronic. As far as the mind set of detector operators goes: although I only found three or four coins on the beach itself, I went up to another very obvious spot, playground equipment and found about $7 in five minutes. This equipment was in a very popular picnic area of about 3 acres (all lawn) immediately behind the beach. The mind boggles at how little this spot had been detected given that there is a very inviting beach in front of it!
Did I detect this spot. Nope. Had my eye on a better spot. There is a reserve elsewhere in the town that hosts 2 separate markets on it, that I was aware of. These are my favourite spots. I had managed to obtain 3 photos of the markets that that are held here, before I came down to Kiama. However, they weren't very good and only gave me a partial picture on where the stall holders set up shop. Given that I have in the past, operated stalls of my own and detected these sort of spots before, I was confident of predicting the way the site was set up.
After hunting this site for a couple of hours (interrupted by storms) I found that I had under prepared. I only brought the large coil down, and should have packed the other 2, as the ground had a very high concentration of junk! (hence the heading). I had decided to hunt next to the pathways, as this is how most stall holders operate.
My finds totaled 2 $2 coins and a 20 cent piece. Pretty ordinary for such a site.
When we left town on the Monday, I got to go back to this site to check out the lay out of the market, as one was being held that day. I was disgusted
to find that they had set up with their back to the paths, or set up across them in vague rows on open lawn!The end result is that I had only grazed the side of this site.
Oh well. There is aways next year.
Total finds for the week end, $15.
Mick Evans.